The man who killed Vancouver artist and skateboarder Lee Matasi won't be getting a new trial.
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the conviction of Dennis Robert White in a 6-3 ruling.
White was convicted of shooting the 23-year-old dead in December 2005 after a verbal dispute in the city's Gastown area.
White was convicted of second-degree murder, but he appealed, claiming the judge shouldn't have told the jury it could infer guilt because White ran from the scene.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled that while the charge to the jury was wrong, the error was harmless and couldn't affect the verdict.
